Maplecord
Free chat, voice and streaming for your friends, communities and game groups.
No ads, no shop and no paid tier. Everything is included, for everyone.
Featured servers
No ID verification. No face scans. No password database.We don’t store your password because we never ask for one. What we keep, and why
Why Maplecord
Everything is included
The extras other platforms keep for paying members are simply part of Maplecord: animated profile pictures, profile effects, name styles, themes, bigger files and sharper streams. There is nothing to unlock.
Nothing to hand over
Sign in with Google, GitHub, Microsoft or Twitch, and add Steam or Battle.net as a second way in. There is no password to leak, and no ID or face scan, ever.
Voice and streaming
Voice channels and calls with push to talk that works while a game is in front. Share a window, a screen or your camera, with sound, to everyone in the channel.
Built for groups
Servers with roles, private channels, forums, galleries, calendars and polls. For game groups: loot rolls the server does, an in-game overlay and game plugins.
Your IP address stays yours
Voice, video and files go through Maplecord's relays, so the people you talk to never see your IP address. Connecting straight to people (P2P) is there if you want it, and off until you turn it on.
Everywhere, and open
A desktop app for Windows, and the same app in your browser. On a phone it can be added to the home screen. The client is open source.
Everything it does
Chat and servers
- Servers with text and voice channels, roles and permissions, and invite links that open in the app or the browser. An invite can be made to run out, and taken back
- Public servers anyone can find by name or topic and join; private ones are by invite
- Private channels, which only the roles and people you let in can see exist, and read-only channels
- The member list shows the people who can see the channel you are in
- Reply, react, edit what you sent, and pin the messages worth keeping
- Threads, search and polls
- Forum channels: posts with a title, each with its own thread, written in Markdown with a preview
- Gallery channels: every post is pictures with a title; like a post, and react to each picture by itself
- Calendar channels: events shown in your own time zone. Say whether you are coming, ask people along, or post an event into a channel
- Files, pictures and videos in chat, shown right there. Drop a file on the chat or paste it in
- A grid of just the pictures and videos of a channel or a conversation
- Voice messages of up to 15 minutes, played right in the chat
- Unread counts, muting a channel or a server, and folders to group your servers
- Slash commands, bots and webhooks
Friends
- Friends and direct messages, the conversation written in last at the top
- Your own friend link, and a QR code of it in the shape of a maple leaf, to hand out anywhere. It can be saved on a card with your name on it
- Save your friends list as a file
- Status (online, idle, do not disturb, invisible), blocking, and a say over who may send you friend requests
- Connections: show the name of an account you have on another service on your profile
Voice and video
- Voice channels: mute, deafen, a volume for each person, and switching microphone or speakers without leaving
- Your microphone is only sent while you are talking, with a sensitivity you set. Or push to talk, on a key or mouse button you choose
- Call a friend from your conversation with them
- Share an app window, a whole screen or your camera, with the computer's sound if you like. You pick the quality and see your own preview
- A stream can fill the screen or pop out into its own window, with its own volume
- With the permission, drag someone from one voice channel to another
For game groups
- Rolls: roll, need / greed, rock paper scissors, coin flip and dice. The server does the rolling, and a roll goes to whoever is in voice with you
- Your roll stats follow you to every device. Only you see them
- An in-game overlay with global hotkeys (desktop app)
- Game plugins: item names and icons, and optional drop detection from the game's log (desktop app)
- Custom sound packs
Included for everyone
- Bigger files: up to 32 MB in chat, more than many other platforms allow for free
- Any size between friends who both allow P2P
- Sharper streams: up to 1080p at 60 in P2P channels and calls, where a server allows it
- Animated profile pictures, and animated decorations around them
- Profile effects: an animation over your profile card, ours or one you made
- Server tags: a symbol and up to five letters for a server's members to wear beside their names
- Profile banners, a colour of your own, a bio and pronouns
- Name fonts, colours and effects (gradient, neon, outline and more)
- Colour themes for the whole app, and custom sound packs
Everywhere
- A desktop app for Windows that updates itself when it starts, and the same app in a browser
- On a phone, add it to the home screen
- Closing the desktop app leaves it beside the clock, with a red dot when there is something new
- Sign in with Google, GitHub, Microsoft or Twitch. Add another, Steam and Battle.net included, so you are never left with only one
- The client is open source
P2P, if you want it
Everything above goes through Maplecord's own server and relays, so nobody you talk to sees your IP address. P2P is extra: it is kept apart from the rest and is off until you turn it on.
In a P2P connection your app connects straight to the others. That allows more, but the people you connect to that way can, with the know-how, find your IP address.
- What goes where. The Maplecord server introduces the apps to each other, passing on the sealed messages that set up the connection. What is then said, shown or sent goes straight between the apps, encrypted, and not through the server.
- Through the relay instead. Turn on "Join P2P channels through the relay" in Settings and your connections in P2P channels go through the relay, which carries them encrypted without being able to read them. Nobody learns your address that way, and the relay's limits apply.
- Turning it on. Untick "Do not allow P2P connections" in Settings, under Voice & audio. You are asked to sign in again, to be sure it is you. Tick it again whenever you like.
- P2P channels are their own kind, marked P2P, and you are warned before you join one. A server can also be hybrid (text on the server, voice P2P) or fully P2P.
- P2P text channels and galleries. What is posted goes between people's apps and is kept only on their devices; the server keeps none of it. Editing changes what everyone's app shows, but cannot take back copies already received.
- P2P calls are a separate button in a conversation with a friend, and only ring if your friend allows P2P too.
- Files of any size between friends who both allow P2P, and higher stream quality where a server allows it.
What we keep, and why
Maplecord is free and runs on a small server with limited storage. We are more interested in letting go of your data than holding on to it.
- Your email address, which the service you sign in with hands over. It is only for account notices and support, and nobody else is shown it. You can give a different address to be written to, in Settings; the one from your sign-in is kept too.
- Which service you signed in with. It gives us your name, picture and email, never your password. If you add another way to sign in, the same is kept for that one.
- Accounts you link, if you link any: that account's name and ID, encrypted, so the name can show on your profile. We keep no access to the account, and unlinking removes both. A Battle.net name is removed after 30 days unless you link it again.
- Your profile, friends, servers, settings, and the messages and files you post, so they are there on every device and for anyone who was offline when they were sent. They travel encrypted, and message text is stored encrypted. Uploaded files are cleared out after 30 days.
- Emojis, stickers and sounds you upload, in your library, until you delete them (which takes them off every server) or your account goes. Sounds are kept as the 5 seconds that are played.
- Your roll totals, so they follow you to every device. Only you are shown them.
What we never have: your password, your ID, or your face.
Checking public pictures: what everyone can see (profile pictures, banners and nameplates, decorations and profile effects, server icons and banners, emojis, stickers and sounds) may be looked over by an automatic tool, which can be an AI service outside Maplecord, to keep out what does not belong. Files in messages are never part of it.
What is never kept: voice, video and screen sharing, and files sent between people. They do not pass through the Maplecord server. Through a relay they are encrypted from one app to the other. Through a stream server, which lets many people watch one stream, the apps encrypt them with a key the Maplecord server hands out; the stream server carries them without being able to hear or see them.
Leaving: you can delete your account yourself, in Settings. Your profile, your sign-in, your friends and the servers you own go with it. What you wrote in other people's servers stays, shown as written by "Deleted user". Anything removed can still exist in an app that had already seen or downloaded it.
No ads. No trackers. The app only connects to Maplecord's own server and relays. Signing in opens the page of the service you chose, in your browser, and the desktop app downloads its updates from Maplecord's releases on GitHub.
Bring your group
Free, with nothing to unlock. Questions or problems? Send us a request.